Default Browser

[Vindicator209]

How can I find the name / path to a person's default browser? I'm having people complain about how my programs only opens IE.

Thanks

[JustinReno]

It's probably somewhere in the registry, I'll Google it.

Edit: Look around on this, maybe you coulde change the value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command

Edited November 20, 2007 by JustinReno

[Vindicator209]

I'm googleing it right now and i keep getting something about netscape, the closest I got was the start up menu one, but that doesn't help, heh.

[GEOSoft]

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shell\open\command

[Vindicator209]

Ahh, I found something nifty in the autoupdateit.au3 file in your directory:

Func _Start($s_StartPath)
    If @OSTYPE = 'WIN32_NT' Then
        $s_StartStr = @ComSpec & ' /c start "" '
    Else
        $s_StartStr = @ComSpec & ' /c start '
    EndIf
Run(@ComSpec & ' /c start ' & $s_StartPath, '', @SW_HIDE)
EndFunc

Works like a charm, thanks guys though

[GEOSoft]

Ahh, I found something nifty in the autoupdateit.au3 file in your directory:

Func _Start($s_StartPath)
    If @OSTYPE = 'WIN32_NT' Then
        $s_StartStr = @ComSpec & ' /c start "" '
    Else
        $s_StartStr = @ComSpec & ' /c start '
    EndIf
Run(@ComSpec & ' /c start ' & $s_StartPath, '', @SW_HIDE)
EndFunc

Works like a charm, thanks guys though

What method are you using to get $s_Startpath?

The registry key I gave you contains the path to the default browser.

[Vindicator209]

$s_Startpath is the URL, I don't know how the function works, but it works

oh and thanks

Edited November 20, 2007 by MethodZero

[GEOSoft]

$s_Startpath is the URL, I don't know how the function works, but it works

oh and thanks

If $s_Startpath is a URL then yes, it will use the default browser to open it.

[therks]

Use ShellExecute("http://.....") and it should do about the same thing. I wrote that _Start() function before ShellExecute() was built-in.